WiFi Load Testing

Understand what happens when the real world hits your WiFi Network

From home to office to industrial environments, WiFi is the backbone that delivers media, data, email, voice conversations, and machine data to destinations across the infrastructure. Imagine when the 2000 odd users in the building you are serving have connected multiple devices to your network. The access points, controllers, authentication mechanisms and media resources are being stressed by 100s of emails, VoIP sessions, youtube views, searches, logins and downloads simultaneously… And this goes on for the whole work week… 100+ hours… Will your equipment really stand up to the demand?

WiCheck is a smart approach to simulating real user scenarios. Each WiCheck box can simulate up to 256 scriptable & programmable user instances capable of connecting and disconnecting, responding to frequency band changes, running multiple applications and all popular security options. Scaling up is as simple as adding more boxes. With WiCheck, what you see is what you get – there are no surprises, licenses and chassis to contend with

What do you get?

256 users in a box

How many devices would you connect to an access point? 64? 128? 192? We have you covered however you have designed your AP. Each box can generate up to 256 clients. You could also connect each client to a different Access Point. You also have the freedom to connect over the air. In short, WiCheck gives you the flexibility to test the infrastructure however you have decided to put it together.

Freedom from Chassis

One of the challenges of buying test equipment is the cost of upgrading beyond a given scale. We addressed this challenge by making our solution completely modular. If you want to scale to higher numbers, just add more boxes. Costs becomes linear making it easy to plan your capital investment. You are also not tied to a single location for your test equipment. No more tyranny of the chassis.

Manage users any which way you want

The clients can be controlled individually, which means there is no end to the scenarios you could think up. You could also add one or more clients to a group and control each group separately and simultaneously. This makes it easy for you to manage your scenarios. Afterall, you are more interested in how the infrastructure is affected when a 100 clients are engaged simultaneously

Share work, not time

Different teams will always want to run test cases at the same time. You are forced to time share your precious test equipment. Our approach gives you a more efficient option. Let different teams use a box each for their specific testing and when the time comes to run a large scale test, just reassign the boxes to hit the system under test over the air. Gets the work done, without wasting time.

A lot can happen in a week

Users are not going to go away in a few minutes, especially in today’s hyper connected world. 100s of users and devices will be joining and leaving the network, and while they are connected, do a whole bunch of stuff from checking out the latest videos on Youtube to catching up on mail and talking to friends on skype. And this can go one for weeks. Will you handle all this?.

Real Applications

End users no longer live within a corporate firewall. Life in the office depends on a whole lot of applications that reside in the internet – youtube, skype, facebook, linkedin & dropbox are as much part of corporate life as outlook mail. WiCheck lets you focus your testing on the user experience rather than just see how it handles a canned data stream. Inject a dose of reality into the test.

Real devices do real things

SWAT allows each of the simulated clients to remain connected indefinitely while running a number of applications from ping to iperf to email running simultaneously. In between you could also slip in a few data downloads, video streams and browsing. This is what really happens in your network and we have faithfully tried to recreate the scenario for you

Any MAC parameter

One can never be sure what settings would each user have, especially on public networks. WiCheck lets you control every relevant MAC level parameter letting you understand the impact it would have on the infrastructure and the user experience. Each of the different groups that your configure within a single box could have different configurations for the clients.

Explore settings & traffic

Clients trying to accomplish the same tasks with different settings would have to be handled properly so that the experience is not significantly different. WiCheck offers you an effective mechanism to validate how different groups of clients would experience the most common use cases and applications. All done with a few clicks or from any of the 100s of scenarios delivered with the product

Standard Security

There are a security standards a network absolutely needs to support and WiCheck helps you test all of those. It is now quite easy to check how well the infrastructure responds to positive and negative scenarios when 100s of devices try to log in simultaneously. WiCheck supports all commonly used security options from WEP to WPA2 and 802.1x.

Captive Portals – CHECK

With the growth in secured content within networks, captive portals have grown in importance. WiCheck provides you a simple approach to verify the scalability of the infrastructure, response time on connections, and rate of connections. It is now easy to benchmark the capability of deployed infrastructure and its availability for specific time critical tasks

Future Proof Testing

With more BYOD devices connected to the network and the use of Mobile to WiFi handoff to handle the growth in traffic, it has become critical to see how well systems can support SIM based authentication. WiCheck allows verification of EAP SIM, EAP AKA and EAP AKA Prime based security with your own as well as 3rd party authentication servers .

Browser based UI

WiCheck features an easy to use, browser based UI. It can be controlled from anywhere on the network. There is no need for special applications, dedicated control PCs and proximity to the system. With a very intuitive approach to configuring, controlling and executing the test cases and a built in reports engine, WiCheck requires very limited training to use

Usable out of the box

WiCheck comes with a built in script engine. Scripts are as easy as writing the scenario in English. There is also a batch of 300+ scripts that ensures that the equipment is ready to use from day one. And in case there is already an existing test framework, WiCheck can fit right in using a pre-defined set of open APIs. Every feature of the tools is usable whatever be the deployment scenario.

Extended duration tests

Execute different combinations of signaling and traffic from tens to thousands of users simultaneously. SWAT WiCheck is capable of running such scenarios for 100s of hours. The test simulates the most common use case seen in the field and is targeted at verifying stability, security, performance and responsiveness of the access point and the infrastructure through extended hours of use.

Security Testing

WiCheck covers almost every possible security protocol required in an enterprise WiFi environment from WEP to WPA-2 to 802.1x. It also covers the EAPSIM security which is important in BYOD scenarios. You can also test responsiveness, correctness and scalability of captive portal authentication mechanisms by making minimal changes to the built in verification script.

Connection Tests

To manage the infrastructure securely, it is necessary to have absolutely control over which devices are allowed to connect and stay connected. This requires tests of the ability of the controller to force disconnects / reject requests from hundreds of devices simultaneously. WiCheck’s ability to faithfully reproduce the behavior of real devices helps you verify this scenario quickly

DFS Testing

For infrastructure vendors, DFS channel tests are critical. To test the connection of 100s of clients on a DFS designated channel and transition of those connected devices to an alternate channel are difficult scenarios to achieve. WiCheck will validate how well the devices can reconnect to a new band. In fact. WiCheck can verify such band transitions 100s of times if necessary

Functionality & Throughput Testing

As with any scale tester, WiCheck can help you test all the basic functionality on the access point and controller and measure the performance. Capable of testing everything from connection & disconnection speed, scalability, web browsing, data throughput to response to a host of applications, WiCheck is specifically targeted at ensuring that you are sure about the features you sell

Application Testing

User experience is defined by how the infrastructure responds to different types of traffic and how effective are the various optimizations in the controller. WiCheck runs real traffic originating from real applications to correctly assess the performance and response the user experiences on the network. WiCheck can also provide simulated traffic to cover non-supported applications

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